The lion and the fox : art and literary works by Wyndham Lewis from the C.J. Fox Collection
| dc.contributor.author | Lewis, Wyndham | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fox, C.J. (Cyril James) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Russell, Danielle | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-21T21:25:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-08-21T21:25:00Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2009 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description | Includes introduction and essays by C.J. Fox. "Published to accompany the exhibition The Lion and the Fox: art and literary works by Wyndham Lewis from the C.J. Fox Collection, April 1-May 28, 2009, Mearns Centre for Learning, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. Canada." Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This exhibition presents the Wyndham Lewis portion of the University of Victoria’s overall C.J. Fox Collection. The title, The Lion and the Fox, is meant to indicate a duality between Lewis as subject and myself as collector. It will be familiar to Lewis readers as the title of his 1927 book about the influence of Machiavelli on Shakespeare.1 That spirited study, which revealed as much about its author as it did about Shakespeare, echoes Machiavelli’s argument that the successful ruler must be a blend of the leonine on the one hand, and the vulpine, on the other. To Lewis’s mind, it was the very lack of essential “foxian” guile that gave Shakespearean giants like Coriolanus, Timon and Othello their tragic magnificence as against the small and crooked “men of the world.” | |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Unreviewed | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Faculty | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The members of the The Lion and the Fox exhibition committee wish to thank Cy Fox for his generous donation of the C.J. Fox Collection to UVic Libraries, for his curatorial assistance and contribution to the exhibition catalogue and for his invaluable support and advice at all stages of the exhibition planning. All art works, books and writings by Wyndham Lewis that are displayed or reproduced are copyright of The Estate of Mrs. G.A. Wyndham Lewis. By kind permission of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust (a registered charity). All art works by Michael Ayrton are copyright of the Michael Ayrton Estate and are reproduced with the kind permission of the Ayrton family. Additional thanks for image reproduction permissions to: the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London; Edward Wadsworth Estate; Kensington Central Library, London; Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s; Black Sparrow Books, Santa Barbara, CA; Methuen, London; Karl Spreitz. Every effort has been made to trace copyright ownership of the works illustrated and to obtain permission for reproduction. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9781550584028 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4820 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Victoria Libraries | en_US |
| dc.subject | Vorticism-Exhibitions | en_US |
| dc.subject | exhibition catalog | en_US |
| dc.subject | Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Wyndham Lewis and Modernism | |
| dc.subject.department | University of Victoria Libraries | |
| dc.title | The lion and the fox : art and literary works by Wyndham Lewis from the C.J. Fox Collection | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |